RE: Evolution
March 10, 2018 at 3:42 am
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2018 at 3:42 am by robvalue.)
I feel pretty safe and unbiased here, because:
If evolution is "wrong": I don't care. It makes no difference to my life whatsoever. I'd just be interested in how scientific theory adapts.
If intelligent design is "wrong": These guys presumably have to re-evaluate their whole life, because their whole religion is a sham.
If intelligent design is "right": I also don't care. If the designer wants to communicate with me sensibly, he is welcome to. If not, then fine. If he needs your help to do so, then he's laughable.
So you see, any outcome is fine with me. I'm just interested in what is most likely to be true, and I do that by working upwards from evidence, not working backwards from conclusions I require for my worldview.
The bible is happenstance. Inserting that word into a sentence reduces the things you're talking about to absurdities, thus disproving them. So the bible is false. You don't have to know anything about the subject matter either, so it's a sure-fire technique. You can protect yourself from ever learning anything new, and hang on to the first set of stories you were told when you were a child, throughout your whole adult life.
If evolution is "wrong": I don't care. It makes no difference to my life whatsoever. I'd just be interested in how scientific theory adapts.
If intelligent design is "wrong": These guys presumably have to re-evaluate their whole life, because their whole religion is a sham.
If intelligent design is "right": I also don't care. If the designer wants to communicate with me sensibly, he is welcome to. If not, then fine. If he needs your help to do so, then he's laughable.
So you see, any outcome is fine with me. I'm just interested in what is most likely to be true, and I do that by working upwards from evidence, not working backwards from conclusions I require for my worldview.
The bible is happenstance. Inserting that word into a sentence reduces the things you're talking about to absurdities, thus disproving them. So the bible is false. You don't have to know anything about the subject matter either, so it's a sure-fire technique. You can protect yourself from ever learning anything new, and hang on to the first set of stories you were told when you were a child, throughout your whole adult life.
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